Nasher in the News

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October 5
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

The museum is open every Thursday until 9 p.m. On the first Thursday of each month, meet artists and local luminaries for refreshments and a tour of the galleries. Cash bar 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., gallery tour at 6 p.m.

On October 5, meet special guest Chloë Seymore, co-founder and gallery director of Branch Gallery in Durham. Celebrate the museum's one-year anniversary with the viewing of a recent purchase for the permanent collection, The Uncertain Museum, a 2004 installation by Olafur Eliasson.

Free with admission.

October 12
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks Senior Curator

The Nasher Museum of Art is committed to providing opportunities for exciting encounters with leading-edge artists and their work, but for many people, contemporary art is new and unfamiliar territory. In this three-part series, the museum director and curators will share three unique stories of how they came to know and love contemporary art, looking at examples from recent decades and offering insight on the current international art scene as it relates to the growth of the Nasher Museum collection and future exhibitions. A continuation series on Collecting Contemporary Art is planned for Spring 2007.

Free for museum members; non-member tickets $5 or $12 for the series
Please call 919-684-3411 for more information or to register

October 21
10:30 a.m.

"Epic Passions"
Anne Schroder, Curator of Academic Programs

Artists such as Eve Sussman (The Rape of the Sabine Women, 2006) and François Gérard (Clytemnestra Hearing the News of Iphigenia's Impending Sacrifice, 1787) have been inspired by ancient Greek and Roman stories of love, conflict and death. Join curator Anne Schroder behind the scenes in the Nasher's new study storage facility to examine and discuss works depicting epic themes of passion from the museum's collections. Some of the featured works will be on view at the Nasher for the first time in the upcoming permanent collection installation change, opening in January 2007.

Seminar is free for Brummer Society members, followed by optional lunch with the curator in the Nasher Café; lunch is $20 per person. Space is limited and advance registration required. To register or request more information, please call 919-684-3411 or email anna.lorenz@duke.edu.

October 24
6:30 p.m.

Introducing...
Young Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art
An exciting new program for young professionals, ages 21 to 40-something. Experience the Nasher Museum and surrounding arts community through a series of educational, social and cultural events led by museum staff and members of the local arts scene. Membership in the Young Friends begins at $60 annually and includes many benefits.

Join Museum Director Kimerly Rorschach for a private tour during the installation of Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, two days before the public opening. Learn how a major traveling exhibition is put together and preview works as they are being installed. A light reception will follow. $10 with Young Friends membership card ($20 for non-members)

For more information, please see page 7, call 919-684-3411, or email nashermembership@duke.edu.

October 25
5:30 p.m.

Exhibition curators Wu Hung, professor of art history at the University of Chicago and consulting curator at the Smart Museum of Art, and Christopher Phillips, curator at the International Center of Photography, will discuss "Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China".

Open and free to the Duke community and Nasher members only.

Museum Auditorium

October 26

"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China"

October 26
5:30 p.m.

Meet Hong Lei, Zhang Dali and Cui Xiuwen, whose work is represented in the exhibition "Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China". Moderated by Wu Hung.

Museum Auditorium
Free with admission

October 27
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Experience another exhibition of contemporary Chinese art, also curated by Wu Hung, at Duke's Franklin Center Gallery. Urban Landscapes features six large photographs by Miao Xiaochun capturing dynamic changes taking place in urban China. The show is on view through February 23, 2007. Free opening reception 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke University, 2204 Erwin Road. Call 684-2765 or go to jhfc.duke.edu.

October 29
3 p.m.

Born in Spain, Jaume Plensa's cutting-edge work reflects his Catalan origins. With its contextually diverse, layered and dualistic nature, his works demand participation to enhance and extend their significance. Though Barcelona is his home base, he has also lived and worked in Berlin, Brussels, in England (at the invitation of the Henry Moore Foundation), and France (at the invitation of the Atelier Alexander Calder). The winner of many national and international awards, his work is exhibited in major museums and galleries, including the Galérie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris; the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust in Halifax, England; the Malmö Konsthallen in Sweden; Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon; Museo Luigi Lecci in Prato, Italy; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museum der Modernen Kunst, Vienna, and in New York, Chicago and Tokyo. Outdoor sculpture is likewise important in Plensa's output, with installations in the USA, Europe, and Japan, and he has completed projects for the cities of Washington D.C., Chicago, Seoul, Stockholm, and Jerusalem. His solo exhibition, "I in his eyes as one that found peace," is on view at Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago.

October 29

"Red Color News Soldier: Li Zhensheng"

Duke's Center for Documentary Studies presents this exhibition of rare photographs documenting China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). 1317 W. Pettigrew St., Durham. 660-3663 or cds.aas.duke.edu.